The film industry of Hollywood was built by fleeing pirates.1 Creators and directors migrated from the East Coast to California in the early twentieth century in part to escape controls that patents granted the inventor of filmmaking, Thomas Edison. These controls were exercised through a monopoly “trust,” the Motion Pictures Patents Company, and were based on Thomas Edison's creative property—patents. Edison formed the MPPC to exercise the rights this creative property gave him, and the MPPC was serious about the control it demanded. As one commentator tells one part of the story,
A January 1909 deadline was set for all companies to comply with the license. By February, unlicensed outlaws, who referred to themselves as independents protested the trust and carried on business without submitting to the Edison monopoly. In the summer of 1909 the independent movement was in full-swing, with producers and theater owners using illegal equipment and imported film stock to create their own underground market.
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Anonymous2006-06-22 19:01
A Dream of Red Mansions (Penguin edition is called The Story of the Stone). 18th century Chinise novel. Best book ever (very long though, if you want something shorter: Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto. Bangkok 8, by John Burdett.The Discovery of Heaven, by Harry Mulisch. Sunglasses after dark, by Nancy A. Collins. Flood, by Andrew Vachss.
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Anonymous2006-06-23 23:27
Read Junky by William S. Burroughs. If you ever needed a reason to (or not to) do Heroine then this is your reason.
Lol I think you meant Heroin, not Heroine...... or maybe not???
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Anonymous2006-06-24 3:06
Blade of the Immortal.
Hiroki Samura
Made of cutting and bleeding and not dying. Superb.
/j.
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Anonymous2006-06-24 7:31
a) BoTI is a manga.
b) BoTI loses its way later on. Great start, then the mangaka pisses it all away.
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Anonymous2006-06-24 11:33
>>20
a: At what point did the OP specify "no manga"?
b: Part the first- the story is not complete, thus judgement is premature. Part the second- opinion. I love to argue about it. See if you can fish harder for it and I'll bite. But, this thread isn't about opinion, it's about suggestions for the OP.
this sage is for all the dickheads who would trod off to the graphic novel section in a BOOK SHOP, A FUCKING UNIVERSE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES, of all places.
fuck the wapanese.
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Anonymous2006-06-27 10:17
>>23
my aren't we bitchy. keep off the oestrogen pills, yo.
if you can't manage to pull your head out of your ass, you'd limit your exposure to a plethora of quality reading material.
If I want to read about manga (and I've read plenty of manga, thanks), I'll go looking for it.
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Anonymous2006-06-29 5:32
>>25
hay ass. i don't give a flying fuck about manga. you're the WEABOO here, ass. i don't like the tone when you talk about graphic novels.
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Anonymous2006-06-29 7:01
you should read the QURAN. it's the only book you'll ever need
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Anonymous2006-06-29 7:37 (sage)
>>26
"graphic novel" == stupid marketing attempt to make crappy comics more acceptable to a wider population. The stigma of "I read comics" versus "I read graphic novels".
A rose by any other name is still a rose.
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Anonymous2006-06-29 10:31 (sage)
>>28
like i said. your loss.
enjoy fucking your high horse
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Anonymous2006-06-29 10:34
>>28
lol elitism in reading material. i don't know anything that could fail worse.